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Definition: STRANDING |
STRANDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Strand |
Date "STRANDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Accidentally running aground, or being forced aground, by extraordinary circumstances outside the usual course of navigation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | To run ashore, to strike the bottom. Stranding means also the destruction or loss of a vessel by its being sunk or by its striking or stranding upon a rock, or the like. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STRANDING |
| Specialty definitions using "STRANDING": cable-machine operator, cabling-machine operator ♦ Free of Particular Average ♦ strander operator, STRANDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, strand-machine operator, Suez Canal clause. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Stranding machine. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "STRANDING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "STRANDING" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "STRANDING": bunched stranding. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
marine mammal stranding center | 7 |
mammal marine network stranding texas | 3 |
cable stranding | 2 |
mammal marine network stranding | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STRANDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 股 (Femur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stranding, grundstoedning (grounding), dugtning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stranding (grounding), garen tot strengen slaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karilleajo (grounding, running aground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toronnage, échouement (strand), échouage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | strandend (beaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συστροφή (contortion, torsion, twine, twirl, twist, wring), προσάραξη (grounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trefolatura, incaglio (deadlock, grounding), arrenamento, arenamento (grounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 立往" (stalling, standstill), 座洲 (running aground), 座州 (running aground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たちおうじょう (bring to a standstill, stalling, standstill), ざす (running aground, temple's head priest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andingstray torcedura (laying, sprain, tweak, twist, winding, wriggle), encalhe (grounding). (various references) сажать на мель. (various references) varada (grounding), encalladura (standing). (various references) buntad kabling (bunched stranding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STRANDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sarandi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STRANDING" (pronounced stra"nding) |
| 6 | -r a" n d i ng | branding. |
| 5 | -a" n d i ng | banding, commanding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, handing, landing, misunderstanding, notwithstanding, outstanding, sanding, standing, understanding, withstanding. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | abounding, amending, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, bending, binding, blending, blinding, bonding, bounding, commending, compounding, comprehending, condescending, confounding, contending, corresponding, defending, defunding, depending, descending, ending, expending, expounding, extending, fending, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, hounding, impending, intending, lending, longstanding, masterminding, mending, minding, misspending, nonbinding, offending, outspending, overextending, overfunding, overspending, pending, portending, pounding, pretending, rebounding, recommending, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sending, sounding, spellbinding, spending, surrounding, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, unending, unwinding, upstanding, vending, wending, winding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: darnings, standing. | |
-2 letters: antings, darings, darning, darting, gastrin, gradins, gratins, innards, ranting, ratings, sanding, snaring, staning, staring, trading. | |
-3 letters: anting, daring, dating, dinars, drains, gainst, giants, gradin, grains, grands, grants, gratin, gratis, grinds, instar, nadirs, ranids, rasing, rating, saning, santir, sating, strain, strand, strang, string, taring, trains, triads. | |
-4 letters: adits, agist, airns, airts, angst. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: integrands, transuding. | |
+2 letters: distraining, transducing. | |
+3 letters: denigrations, freestanding, handwritings, hardstanding, tragediennes, transcending, understating, undertakings. | |
+4 letters: administering, cotransducing, degenerations, demonstrating, disheartening, gonadotropins, grandstanding, hardstandings, kindergartens, masterminding, prostaglandin, standardising, standardizing, subordinating, undercoatings, understaffing, understanding. | |
+5 letters: administrating, countershading, deconsecrating, defenestrating, degranulations, disarrangement, discriminating, disenthralling, disintegrating, disintegration, disorientating, gonadotrophins, hydrogenations, kindergartners, predesignating, predestinating, prostaglandins, underpaintings, understaffings, understandings. | |
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